The Whole “One Year Later” Thing

This was supposed to be an origin movie and was meant to give a more “realistic” depiction of how the Fantastic Four came to terms – as human beings – with suddenly finding that their bodies had changed in such drastic (and varying) ways.

However, the movie dramatically failed on that front (and was always going to), given that the movie skipped a year into the future shortly after the characters experienced those changes.

Aside from the sudden horror of what was happening to them, we saw nothing of how they came to terms with their new forms/abilities.

No sooner had they been transformed, they were adept at using their powers (Ben Grimm, for example, was being utilised by the military).